I’ll keep all my plans 

Close to my chest

I’ll wait here and see 

Which way the wind 

Will blow 

I’m taking my time 

Watching the 

Afterbirth of a nation 

Watching the tension grow.

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Alexander joins forces with James Madison and John Jay to write a series of essays defending the new United States Constitution, entitled The Federalist Papers. The plan was to write a total of twenty-five essays, the work divided evenly among the three men. In the end, they wrote eighty-five essays, in the span of six months. John Jay got sick after writing five. James Madison wrote twenty-nine. Hamilton wrote the other fifty-one!